***At this time, the Course Directors are monitoring the ongoing situation with COVID-19 and hope to make a determination on the updated 2021 dates at a later time.***
The fifth annual Otology Fellows Congress and Advanced Course in Ear & Skull Base Surgery at the Yasargil Surgical Skills Laboratory & Education Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR is scheduled for October 23-25, 2020. This course will be a unique and outstanding opportunity for 24 otology/neurotology fellows-in-training to focus on advanced surgical techniques that are well beyond the scope of a typical temporal bone course while networking alongside other otology/neurotology fellows from all around the world.
Lead by program chairs Michael Gluth, MD, John Dornhoffer, MD, Walter Kutz, MD, and Brandon Isaacson, MD, this course will include lectures and extensive laboratory dissections covering topics such as advanced soft tissue techniques/local flaps, malleostapedotomy, endoscopic ear surgery, complex ossiculoplasty, mastoid cavity obliteration, difficult cochlear implant cases , as well as broad dissection sessions on a variety of lateral skull base approaches including infratemporal fossa, extended middle cranial fossa, translabyrinthine, jugular foramen, and retrosigmoid/retrolabyrinthine.
Priority registration is given those currently participating in dedicated subspecialty surgical fellowship training in otology/neurotology and it is expected that attendees will subspecialize in otology/neurotology during their careers. As a prerequisite, applicants must have completed full training regimen in otolaryngology-head & neck surgery. A total of 24 otology/neurotology fellows will be accepted into the course on a “first come, first served” basis. Please be aware that the deadline to register is August 21, 2020! There is no registration fee and acceptance will include lodging and meals. Registrants will be responsible for their own travel expenses to and from Little Rock.
| Michael B. Gluth, MD (Course Director) Professor of Surgery Director, Comprehensive Ear & Hearing Center and Bloom Otopathology Lab The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago, IL John L. Dornhoffer, MD (Course Co-Chair) Professor and Director Division of Otolaryngology/Neurotology University of Arkansas For Medicine Sciences Little Rock, AR |
Brandon Isaacson, MD (Course Co-Chair) Professor Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX J. Walter Kutz Jr., MD (Course Co-Chair) Professor Department of Otolaryngology UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX |
Location
Yasargil Surgical Skills Laboratory & Education Center
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
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